Columbia University, in the United States, has decided to continue all lessons remotely, in an attempt to defuse the growing student mobilizations in support of the Palestinian people. Last week, several hundred students camped on the university campus as a sign of solidarity with Palestine and to ask for more attention […]
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Columbia University, in the United States, decided to continue all lessons remotely, in an attempt to defuse the growing student mobilizations a support of the Palestinian people. Last week a few hundred students they had camped inside the university campus as a sign of solidarity with Palestine and to ask for more attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They also asked the school about terminate collaboration agreements with companies linked to Israel. Last Thursday the rector Minouche Shafik However, he requested the intervention of the police. For the first time in 50 years the police entered the campus, arresting around seventy students.
In recent days there have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behavior on our campus. Anti-Semitic language, like any other language used to hurt and scare people, is unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken,” the government said in a statement. Columbia University, explaining that it acted “based on concerns raised by Jewish students.” Rector Shafik has received calls for her resignation from several Republican and Democratic parliamentarians who accuse her of not doing enough to protect Jewish students. Last January 2, the president of Harvard Claudine Gay she had been forced to resign after a long sustained campaign against her also through the media and with the asset support from Jewish financier Bill Ackman.
Arrests were also reported today at Yale University where around fifty students ended up in handcuffs. Protesters blocked some streets around the campus, in turn calling for the university to divest from businesses with ties to Israel. Those arrested will face disciplinary action, which could include suspension. Pro-Palestine mobilizations are also reported at MIT in Boston, at the University of Michigan, at Washington University, at New York University as well as Vanderbilt University and UNC Chapel Hill.
Sunday there White House had condemned the “physical intimidation against Jewish students and the Jewish community” at Columbia, reacting to the appearance on social media of a video in which pro-Palestinian activists threatened Jewish students with the slogan “October 7th will be every day for you”. And always yesterday, Elie Buechlera rabbi who works with Columbia, had urged hundreds to leave campus because, he said, “the university had not guaranteed their safety.” Pro mobilizations
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